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I was 'guy in the chalk outline', formerly 'skydog', in the birdhouse.

B'hammer, WA.

Interested in #science, #politics, #3Dprinting, #arthistory, and just about anything else. I have > 17,000 hrs in an airplane, mostly in seat 0-A. (#aviation)

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Canadian-American journalist Sam Forster spent two weeks pretending to be Black to attempt a racial experiment no one asked for. But he is not the first white journalist to try this, and to end up reinforcing stereotypes and failing to address systemic .
“To believe that the richness of Black identity can be understood through a temporary costume trivializes the lifelong trauma of racism. It turns the complexity of Black life into a stunt.”
https://theconversation.com/theres-a-strange-history-of-white-journalists-trying-to-better-understand-the-black-experience-by-becoming-black-231577
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My dad had Black Like Me on his bookshelf, as a psychologist. It wasn't merely professional, either. Our Irish ancestry has a darker skin tone than normal, but still 'white', and afro-textured black hair. In the service at the end of WWII he was denied restrooms in Georgia.

I find the inference that posing as black for discovery is just another form of blackface to be very interesting, and a tell of racism, realized or not, within the speaker themself. It's also interesting see how people want to form the line of color on a spectrum that is largely seamless.

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To make the moon a graveyard goes against the beliefs of various human religions.

Here’s a look at what believers would say about this winter’s attempt to send a probe holding the remains of paying customers to the lunar surface

https://theconversation.com/why-having-human-remains-land-on-the-moon-poses-difficult-questions-for-members-of-several-religions-221399
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"The key concern, and not just for the Navajo Nation, will be how to respect all religious traditions as humans explore and commercialize the Moon."

I cannot tell you how infuriating that is. If there is not a safety aspect to having cremated ashes (some carbon, calcium & minerals) placed on the moon, religion can keep to its own, back with the 'God in the Gaps', and get out of the way of rational, non-mythic people. Religion will kill us all, and now it's telling us where we can be buried when we are dead? I don't have words strong enough. Time for religion to get back in its damned lane, AND STAY THERE.

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Deriving moral stricture thru a cosmological myth. When the myth is a illustration of human interaction (such as the Golden Rule), it serves as a conduit for teaching. But to take that cosmology and craft miscellaneous strictures around it, to give them authority (like Prosperity Gospel), is metastasizing a power structure for one's own ends...not illustrative of humanism. In any event, 'belief' in a myth is fraught, if one is not simultaneously acknowledging that myth is an analogy, at best, and sometimes is nothing more than a cute story.

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